Re: [Monotone-debian] debian/copyright needs rewriting?

[Zack Weinberg]

On Thu, Feb 28, 2008 at 12:32 AM, Richard Levitte <address@hidden> wrote:
> In message <address@hidden> on Wed, 27 Feb 2008 23:34:32 +0100, Ludovic 
> Brenta <address@hidden> said:
>
>  ludovic> > W: monotone-server: copyright-without-copyright-notice
>  ludovic>
>  ludovic> I'm not sure what the problem is.  Are you trying to list all
>  ludovic> the authors of Monotone in the copyright statement?  Why is
>  ludovic> that difficult, given the keys in the monotone database?
>
>  I'm looking for advice about form.  It's quite possible that we should
>  copy a combination of COPYING and AUTHORS, as far as I can read the
>  REJECT FAQ and the mail messages it points to on this issue.

Neither COPYING (which is just the GPL, and that's as it should be)
nor AUTHORS actually contains the sort of unambiguous statement of
copyright that it seems is wanted.  With Graydon no longer
participating, I feel less weird about revising his rather
idiosyncratic lead-in to AUTHORS, but I'm not really sure what to put
there, especially not so that there is a nice short thing to copy into
debian/copyright.

Note that I asked debian-legal a few months ago about the
complications from having all the third-party libraries in the source
package and was told that I should copy the *entire text* of AUTHORS
into debian/copyright.  Which is nuts and I'm not doing it.

zw